We have a very dense growth of wild rhododendron in this area for 20 miles in either direction, the hillsides are covered with it, that picture was the first week of May last year while morel hunting. I am not sure how much of a factor it is to honeybees though if any.

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Yes, very different. I know the Mountain Laurel, and we do have that here as well, but not in near the numbers of the wild Rhododendron. The Rhodo looks just like the kind in everyone's yard, except the wild variety has less blooms per plant, although still covered, and all I have seen is white and a pale pink. The plant is also much bigger and more gangly that the cultivated variety. But it literally covers some of the hillsides, especially those with streams.

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No idea what it is, but for poison, poison ivy is said to make one of the best honeys ever. and never causes a reaction in a human nor affect the bees in any way.

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What JPB said. I thought I got off thread and posted. I saw it on the other thread and posted. Then somehow I ended up on this one and I'm like - where's my post? Comes up from a bulb. It blooms first then the leaves/tube like comes up to absorb sunlight.

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